{"id":198,"date":"2007-10-04T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:45:10","slug":"20071004-xen-security-issue-patched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/04\/20071004-xen-security-issue-patched\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/04 Xen Security Issue Patched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow I did not think that Xen had a security issue. Thats great that its patched. Article from http:\/\/slashdot.org<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art2\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t<span><a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/\">IT<\/a>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/07\/10\/04\/1520258.shtml\">Xen Security Issue Patched<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \tkdawson  \ton Thursday October 04, @11:27AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>stay-in-your-places-now-children<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=172\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicsecurity.gif\" alt=\"Security\" title=\"Security\" height=\"78\" width=\"59\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tAn anonymous reader sends in word of a <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/virtualization\/archives\/2007\/10\/security_vulner.html\">privilege escalation security issue<\/a> identified in the open source Xen hypervisor. Xen has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xensource.com\/Pages\/Download_4.0.1_Hotfix-2007-001.aspx\">issued a hotfix<\/a> and urged all users to install it. The problem was <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/26986\/\">disclosed by Secunia<\/a> last week. A user of a guest domain with root privileges could execute arbitrary commands in domain 0 via specially crafted entries in grub.conf when the guest system is booted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow I did not think that Xen had a security issue. Thats great that its patched. Article from http:\/\/slashdot.org IT: Xen Security Issue Patched Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 04, @11:27AM from the stay-in-your-places-now-children dept. An anonymous reader sends in word of a privilege escalation security issue identified in the open source Xen hypervisor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}